Speaker 1: No lunchtimers.
Speaker 2: This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve oh one in
h Town.
Speaker 3: What's happening to lunch timers? Good afternoon to you, and
welcome to a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety m.
Speaker 4: I've been struck out in a change up his first time.
Speaker 1: We'll beating up Jorge, who settles under display. But the
Jackson can.
Speaker 4: Hernandez get to the bag before the.
Speaker 5: Three he does?
Speaker 4: On a rooteam play, Aaron Jodge just flubs it in
center field and the Dodgers catch a huge break right there. Well,
the Dodgers got to be saying, Okay, here's our.
Speaker 6: Chance round their side forty with me.
Speaker 7: Right for away.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be a tough play, but one the Yankees
should make, and the bases are loaded. Two defensive mishaps
for New York.
Speaker 3: It's the second Yankee heir of the inning, and they'll
be loaded for Gavin Lux.
Speaker 6: You cannot think you're one out the way.
Speaker 4: You just have to block down and make pitches with
two us nut se Liso, nobody as Dandy Kutin.
Speaker 8: Though platrocious defense from the Yankees leading directly to a
Dodger on in the fifth, the Yankee defense absolutely failed
Garret Cole.
Speaker 3: In the fifth. It's now five to one and they're
loaded for Freddy show Holds, yet to really make his
mark in this world series. Hours at foul.
Speaker 4: That's Catcher's interference on Austin Wells.
Speaker 3: They're pointing to Wells.
Speaker 4: Interference will load the bases and the list of errors
grows for the Yankees.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers are strung, going.
Speaker 6: From a championship, from a proper celebrations.
Speaker 1: Sing to us Dods.
Speaker 3: Series. All they started with the party, all right, then
they started riots. Good, have to do it, everybody, Ross.
I do love LA. I don't love LA sports teams.
I do love LA. But when you really love something, Matt,
you burn its buses to the ground. Yeah, and you
raid Nike stores and just go in there and chart
to steel as much gear as possible. Yes, Oh man,
I felt dirty just the whole week. I gotta be
brutally honest with you. I mean, giving you any run
towards the Dodger just makeshift.
Speaker 9: Gross.
Speaker 3: It was the lesser of the two evils. Though we
chose that we're on the right side of history. Oh,
I don't think there was any doubt in our mind
we had to root for the Dodgers. Yeah, it was
mostly rooting against the Yankees, of course. And Brian cash
Brian Cashman, sock get Brian Cashman. Blame this one on
the Astros. By the way, I am getting inundated with
tweets ROSSI, We've got to call Garrett Cole in a
few minutes. They're asking for him. Okay, because when's you
think or you are? You are your people out to
his people. Let's try next segment. Let's just let's just
uhn rand' dolling. Yeah, we won't even like set him up.
We'll just like just call him as he's available. We'll
try a lot of folks did not think he was
very polite to me yesterday when he called the show.
Thus she deserved the lack of defense that. Uh by
the way, does Anthony Rizzo give two craps about being
in the World Series? Why do you say that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: His defense was horrific.
Speaker 10: Ye.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and I know he's got some hand injurws
or whatever, but he has no home runs since like
May or whatever it was. I mean, I was like, man,
do you even care about playing baseball right now. I
mean he was washed before they signed him this year,
but that's true, that's true. I will say this, And
we were kind of you and I were kind of
talking about whether or not America was gonna catch onto
the Yankees Dodger series. I'm gonna probably guess and Ross
and tell you the numbers for these games are gonna
be outstanding because there are just two rabid fan bases,
but collectively a lot of America just hates them both too.
So you add that together and it means people are
gonna at least watch. Yeah. I want to have you
noticed it all or paid attention to what the Raid
of the World Series ratings have been. I mean the
fact that it was basically they got up three to
oh probably didn't help. Now, I will say this, I
think I saw a report that it beat the Monday
night game beat the Pittsburgh Steelers Giants game. Really, I
don't know that to be accurate. I thought I saw
something I can remember Twitter. You have to kind of
double check out. And also, you know people, it's like
the game like this this demo and that demo, and
like it's oh okay, yeah they won eighteen to nineteen
females like what okay, sure, yeah, all right, So I
need a ruling from you ROSSI on something. It doesn't
involve me, but it involves a member of my Rockets
broadcast team traveling crew. Okay, Adrian Travelia has been a
long time Spanish voice of the Rocket Oh yeah, huge
Dodgers fan. Huge Dodger, I mean huge Dodgers fan. I
told him last week, this is the only time I'll
ever say this, Go Dodgers. Okay. So he flew with
the team on the team plane and I flew uped
by myself commercially, and he took care of my perdiem money,
and I said, hey, can I come get my per
diem money because I know that you're watching the game.
And this is when the game was five to nothing.
Mm hmm. He says, bro, I've taken a sleeping pill.
I'm going to bed. Oh wow, How So I said
that's fine, I mean, I get them the next day.
But I didn't really believe him. So then I'm on
a group thread of text with some other people in
the traveling party. Want our director of operations is a
huge and Yankees fan, So we were blank talking to
each other. It was me, Craig Hilow is our equipment
manager or operations person, and Adrian. And Adrian doesn't know
any of this is going on the comeback because he
was asleep, so he wasn't lying. He was like, you
know what, five nil, I'm out of here. I want
to really give him lots of crap all day long.
I think I should be able.
Speaker 5: To do that, right.
Speaker 3: The win probability got up to ninety five point eight percent.
Rock The Astros have lost World Series games before. Did
we ever fall asleep? Did we ever go gets over goodnight?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: I think I watched every single out of probably every
single game, no matter what, even in just having one
on the background. But you know what, you're you're up three.
He got three wins in the bag. It's not like
it was Game seven.
Speaker 11: I guess.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm trying to give him some leeway
here somehow, but it seems like poor format. I don't think.
I don't think he deserves leeway. Yeah, I could see that.
I mean, you are one of the great comebacks in
World Series history. Yeah, I missed it because you gave up.
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did he have a morning appointment? Was a series. What
did he have to do in the morning? Nothing? Okay,
he doesn't leave his room. We got to dinner occasionally,
not we I mean, like everybody in the group, like
the whole traveling party. We go out to dinner. We
maybe go see a movie. Yeah, yeah, we gotta throw
a fly, you know what, You're right, we gotta throw
a flag on this. So I'm just I was stunned.
He says, I'm going to bed, bro and I'm like,
going to bed nothing. I mean, it's a world freaking series.
Your team's in it. I just could believe it. Yeah,
all right, go Dodgers. We don't have to say it anymore.
Please don't. We're done. We're absolutely finished with him, thank god.
All right, well, Rossie, we have a super busy show today.
I mean, this is a show that might get us
on Marconi. Okay, explain, all right, we got Anthony Beck's
going to join us today on the show. Okay, and
you're like, who's Anthony Beck? I am former tight end
of the Jets way back in the day. He's the
coach of the Saint Louis BattleHawks of the XFL, but
he's also the Jets radio analyst Okay, great. Well it's
funny because because Connor's like, why are we having the
BattleHawks coach on, I'm like, because he does the color
for the Jets. First of all, why not? It was like, duh,
who doesn't want to talk XFL in the middle of
the NFL season. Come on, now, Connor, you'd be better
than that. That's cool. Uh, So we'll have him join
us coming up at the bottom of the arty, give
us a little Jets Texans preview at one. We got
doctor order with us for He's weekly thirty minutes, the
fastest thirty minutes of major market radio. Yes to a clock.
We're gonna check in with Eddie Nuonyez, the athletic director
of the University of Houston, you know, kind of see
what life is like on the job after moving from
New Mexico previously at LSU, and just the thought of
trying to navigate these murky waters that is NIL and
transfer portal and yeah, Big twelve. And I just got
the announcement. I got the press release, Matt. He will
also be formally announcing your huge NIL donation. So that's
that's exciting news. Got a bad connection here in Dallas,
and here a word you said there, Thank you for that.
Whatever you said, it was probably rude. And then we
had the Rotten five a day of two thirty looking
forward to that. Yeah, and Helly Aaron I believe it
or not today? So I mean, this is a radio program,
is it, Helly? Are not Dodgers believe it or not?
Speaker 10: Dodger?
Speaker 3: Ooh you feel like a dirty Hord, don't you? Oh
it doesn't feel good?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: So seven one three, two one two five seven ninety.
Now the world series are worth Have you cleansed yourself?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: Again, what I I wanted some people to do is
I want the people to call in today and say, man,
I told you I wasn't gonna watch it, but you did.
You had to have watched it was there was serious
drama for a lot of this series. I think a
lot of people were tuned out.
Speaker 5: In Houston.
Speaker 3: We're like that. No matter if it was yeah, you know,
forget what I say. Yeah, if it was like a
Giants and Guardians, we wouldn't be watching it, didn't matter
if not Houston. That's how we roll in this town.
That's what we in this community. We only roll for
the Houston teams. And then sometimes don't even roll for
the Houston teams. I mean it is what it is. Mm, no, cool,
We're getting there. We're getting there. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety dd Did you feel a little
dirty rooting for the Dodgers or did you feel better
by just seeing the Yankees absolutely employed? By the way,
ROSSI uh, did I have the UH series prediction right? Yes, Matthew?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: You you called out the Dodgers in five. I called
you a mad man. I said that was ridiculous and
in a long laundry list of your bad opinions, yeap,
and you nailed it on the head.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: It took a great meltdown from Aaron Judge and Garrett
Colon company. But at the end of the day, you
were right and I was wrong, and you're gonna be
nice to be the entire rest of the show to
say that. Now, Oh okay, maybe now seven one three
two one two five sevenine against Matt Thomas Shall here
from Dallas, fave rockets at Mavericks tonight up here in
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Speaker 1: Be there, lunchtimers, lunchtimeers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 3: Happy Halloween everyone, twelve twenty on The Matt Thomas Show.
I got an unpipelar take. I'll get with Ross about
music here.
Speaker 6: No, what is it?
Speaker 3: I like Halloween music more than I like Christmas music. Well,
we known for years you hate Christmas us Like, that's fine,
let's move on. I don't even want to argue with you,
all right, Ross, Let's try to get a hold of Okay,
Garrett Colsey if it works out, hold on.
Speaker 2: Tello.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking for Garrett Cole please.
Speaker 13: Yeah, this is Garrett.
Speaker 5: Who's this?
Speaker 3: This is Matt Thomas. You were on my radio show yesterday.
Speaker 14: Matt what?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Oh, this is that guy that kept on trying to
make fun of me.
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 3: I wanted to send my conces for your loss yesterday.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that was a tough one.
Speaker 17: We got up five zero and I really thought we
were gonna win, and at the end of the day
it didn't work out, mostly because of Aaron Judge and
Anthony Rizzo.
Speaker 13: I mean, my goodness, how bad was their defense.
Speaker 17: But it's a team game, and unfortunately we lost and
we'll have to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 13: And well, I'm going to sleep on a pile of tonight.
Speaker 3: Matt. So you don't sound too upset?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that a fair indication of your emotions right now?
Speaker 17: I'm sorry I can't hear you over my three hundred
and thirty million dollars.
Speaker 3: Matt, Can you repeat that so you're not too upset?
Speaker 13: No, I look, at the.
Speaker 17: End of the day, I want to win games, and
I'm here to win a World Series. But also, the
new Bugatti I just bought wasn't cheap and I'm able
to afford that, and I can live in New York City.
I don't have to be in the hell hole that
is over there in Houston and so uh not the
way I wanted it to go. But I'm happy to
have all the money that I have and live a
great life with my wife Amy, and I can't wait
to dress up tonight for Halloween.
Speaker 13: And no, we're not gonna be Kermit and Piggy. I
knew you were gonna say that.
Speaker 3: Come on, Matt, Can I ask your so freaking rude?
Can I ask what you can? I ask your dressing
up as.
Speaker 13: Yes, I'm going to be Woody and she's going to
be buzz.
Speaker 3: Light Year, okay, And will you will you stay in
Midtown Manhattan or are you gonna go.
Speaker 13: We're gonna go into infinity and beyond tonight. If you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Man, you don't sound like you're upset at all that
you lost a five nothing lead.
Speaker 17: You know, when this business meant as you know you
you probably put it together terrible shows week after week,
and you have to have a short memory and you
got to be ready to go back there and focus.
So I'm looking forward to twenty twenty four, spending a
lot of money and laying with buzz light year tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I just wanted to let you know
the city Houston. I mean, I gotta be brutally honest
with you, Gret, because I feel like our relationship is
built that way. We were not rooting for you, We
were hoping that your squad was going to lose. And
it was yeah, I know, and it was actually really.
Speaker 13: Why I gave my heart and soul to that city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you you put the Scott Boris hat on
right away, you, oh.
Speaker 17: I with the freaking hat. It's my luck had Scott
Boris made me a pile of money. I love Scott Boris.
Speaker 13: He was the best man at my wedding.
Speaker 3: I hope he can speak at my funeral.
Speaker 13: I love Scott Boris. I'm loyal to Scott Boris, and
that was my luck he had.
Speaker 17: And actually I forgot it yesterday and that's why I
gave up all those runs, and that's why Anthony Rizzo
didn't cover first base.
Speaker 3: All right, last question, what's your relationship now with Anthony Rizzo?
Like today?
Speaker 13: I hope to never talk to him again.
Speaker 3: He cost me a world series. All right, Garrett, thank
you very much, enjoy your offseason, and we look forward
to uh seeing you in your buzz light year and
woody costume later tonight.
Speaker 17: Whatever Anthony Rizzo sucks, Trevor Bauer sucks and Houston.
Speaker 3: Sucks, suck it, Garrett colin a mobile joining us here
on the Matt Thomas Show of Ross. He really doesn't
like Trevor Bauer none, Like why is taking shots at
Houston too? We loved him with but we opened arms
with him, you know what. I think he was trying
to play it cool, but he was really angry. Yeah,
he's not happy with Anthony Rizzo. No, he's not. And
he kept on blaming Rizzo.
Speaker 5: Was it his fault?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 3: I think that people were saying that Rizzo kind of
lollygagged it over there, and he didn't put once he
grabbed the ball, he didn't necessarily hustle to the bag
as the kids would say. Yeah, but he can hardly move.
I don't know if he would have gotten over there.
He is slow and expensive and can't hit. Yes, Other
than that, he's very valuable, fantastic guess. I gotta be
honest with you, and I don't mean to be myopic
when it comes to Houston, But the Yankees lost yesterday
Ross in a very Houston way, right, Does that make sense? Know? No,
Houston has two championships recently with the Astros. Don't go there.
We don't have to hear that. It's not Choke City
against the Suns in like nineteen ninety three or whatever.
Don't bring up the olders Buffalo games, which you're trying
to tell me too. Huh Oh, come on, man, distant
memories Dave Smith blowing the lead in the sixth Series
against the Mets, or Dame Lillard's catch or Chris Paul's
ham straw. Oh god, you know what it was? Ross?
That was a Houstonian loss. Stop. It was man, I
put out one hundred high schoolers and they catch that
freaking fly ball from from Aaron Judd that Aaron Judge dropped. Yeah,
it was I mean one for the I mean, help
me out super routine, right. I mean I was in
a plane, so I didn't see every single but super
routine extremely should have been caught a thousand times out
of a thousand. Oh, Lorie, congratulations the Dodgers, thanks for
destroying your city right away. Ross, it took him like
an hour to destroy La correct. I mean, my god,
they had like two hundred people at a Nike store
going in there and just stealing gear. Was was it
two hundred people were they stealing? Dodgers scared? What were
they doing? Well, I don't know what they were doing,
but go look up Nike destruction in Los Angeles. You'll
be able to find it. All Right, let's get a
little Texans chatter going. Next, Anthony Beck is on Jets Radio.
He will join us. Next time is twelve to twenty
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Dallas for Rockets and Mavericks, and I'll have the call
for you beginning with the Pregabe Show on the network
at seven. Launch Pad starts at six thirty right here
on Sports Talk seven and joining us now is the
head football coach of the Saint Louis BattleHawks. You're saying, well, Matt,
why are we talking XFL right now? Will? We will?
But we're also going to talk about the New York
Jets tonight's Texans opponent, and the man who calls the
games with Bob was choosing on the Jets network as
Anthony Beck, who was a former tight end, did some
games against for the Houston ESPN for the Cougars years
ago with American Athletic Conference and joints us here on
Sports Talk Semi Anthony, it's Matt, thanks for joining us.
How did you celebrate National tight Ends Day last week?
Speaker 18: You know, it's nice because you know a lot of
my you know, constituents in the past, my wife and
some people that know me. They post some pictures of
me and stuff like that make me feel good since
it's been hell, what now almost twenty thirteen years since
I put on the uniforms. So it's good man. I celebrated. Obviously,
I called the game, so I was able to watch football.
But it was good to see some throwback West Virginia
picks online and a couple of Jet picks online, so
it was good stuff.
Speaker 3: Who is the greatest tight end in NFL history?
Speaker 18: Greatest tight end in NFL history, I'll go with Gronk.
I just think you know, his run was was pretty
impressive and he did everything. I mean, you know, we
can pull clips of him block and a guy out
of bounds into.
Speaker 3: The bleachers, right, So I like complete tight ends.
Speaker 18: You know, I got a lot of appreciation for the
for the tight ends that play now in their skill set,
but Gronk was one of a kind and he did
everything great for.
Speaker 3: Sure, for sure. Anthony joining us here, Anthony Beck with
his on Sports Talk seven and I now, obviously the
Jets get a lot of national attention with all the
games and being in the market, and we focus obviously
on the on the Houston sports side of things. I
am perplexed, Anthony that the Jets have gone off to
the start they have so far at two and six,
and you've seen every game you've been in, every one
of them. Is there a way to wrap it up
in a nice package to explain what has happened? Because
you've got great running backs, you've got skill position receivers.
I don't think Aaron's career is over with your defense
has got one of the best corners in the game.
And sos Garner helped me to the Houston audience what
has gone wrong this year? In a nutshell?
Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, I just think from a week to
week's standpoint, it's been just a lack of execution by
multiple players taking their turns that have really, you know,
set this team back. And I think as the weeks
have gone on, you know, I think Aaron's played decent.
I just he's not the same Aaron Rodgers. But I
don't think, at least I didn't. I didn't want the
Aaron Rodgers of you know, twenty eighteen. I wanted a
guy that can run a system, get the ball where
it needs to go, and what the playmakers this team
has go make some plays. You know, I think we're
second in the NFL and drop balls. That was an
issue early on. Then there was some penalties in some games.
There wasn't a lot of penalties, but some of those
penalties were strategic moments in the game where it costs us.
The special teams hasn't been great obviously, It's documented Greg
Greg's airlines struggles throughout the year, and then defensively of late,
it's it's not been at its best, you know, especially
in the fact when you let the Patriots drive down
the field, and I think a couple of things come
with that.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have a decimated's safety situation.
Speaker 18: And also, you know your head coach is now your
was your full time defensive coordinator, and me being a
head coach, you know, I want to sit in on
offensive meetings and be a part of that game plan
for the entire time that we put the run install
on the play installs. But I might be in there
twenty minutes and all of a sudden I get pulled
out because I get to do other head coaching duties,
So I'm not there for the hale install.
Speaker 3: So you know, I can imagine late nights those things.
Speaker 18: I mean, ideally, Jeff Ulbrick is a head coach in
this league somewhere at some time, but in the circumstances
that it's in, it's not an easy proposition.
Speaker 3: So combine all those things.
Speaker 18: I just think, to me, it's it's a lack of
execution all the way through. And Aaron's kind of pressing
right now. I think he's trying to do maybe a
little too much, And and you know, with the changes
and everything, I think, you know, everybody's trying to get
it right. But I think simply just going out and
just playing good ball is enough for this team to
be good. To be one of the better teams in
the league. But until they show that, you know, they're
just a collection of really good players right now.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned it's a different Aaron Rodgers in terms
of is it types of plays, is it getting rid
of the football second too late? Maybe getting to the
lone of scrimmage a little bit, and tell me some
difference is if no one had seen him as a
jet this year as compared to maybe the last year
or so in Green Bay.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean he's doing things at times where you're like, man,
that's the legit Hall of Fame quarterback. And then there's
times where maybe he doesn't quite trust the protection but
it's there, or he trusts the protection and it's not there.
So now it's like now, you know, getting into a rhythm.
I mean, the best game he played all year was
against the Patriots in the in the first game they played,
I mean, creating plays on them, getting out of the pocket,
doing all these things.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a little nicked up in those areas.
He's not that guy.
Speaker 18: He can't do it week to week that in that moment,
that looked like a guy that was trending in the
right direction. Unfortunately, that's not a guy that can consistently
do that at this point in his career. So winning
from the pocket obviously has got to be elite. And
for him, you know, being able to have some type
of run game around him consistently that that has not
been there of late, and you know, for him to
go out there and do it all now and to
the other slip side is you know, he's not quite hitting.
You know, I'm a layup guy, right, like you know,
if you're a really good quarterback, you're a little older, right,
but you got I mean you could see do everything.
Like to me, the Jets for the last ten years
haven't had a quarterback to just hit the layups right
like Zach Wilson tried to, but he couldn't complete him
because he was just so inaccurate.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 3: So for like for me, it's like sometimes you.
Speaker 18: See him pull the trigger back on a couple circumstances,
like just get the ball to the guys and let
them do their things, move the sticks, move the chains,
and just execute at that level. I just think that
consistency right now has to be the thought process the
plays and whatever it's been. I actually think that you know,
from from a standpoint of the outfitse this is his system.
I mean, this is the him and Hackett work together,
and Todd Downing is running the saint. So I actually
think Todd Downing's called some you know, two good games
since he's been here. But again, it's it's just this
this execution situation and at the end of the day, man,
players got to go out there and play. Your best
player's got to show up consistently, and they're not doing that.
It's not just Aaron. I mean, they got a lot
of good players. You just talked about it. They got
a lot of good players on this roster. But it
may be the look guard one time, the right tackle
one time, might be a receiver, it might be the
running back, it might be the tight end. But you
cannot have that. And it starts from the top down.
You know, it's got to be handled, it's got to
be dealt with. Guys have to take accountability, and every
team's dealing with it. But you know, at some point
the Jets have to get over the hamp and play
a good game completely, and they haven't done that really
since they're they're win versus the Patriots.
Speaker 3: What five five weeks ago. Yeah, a couple more minutes
here with Anthony Beckkells the color and analysis on the
Jets Radio network. The Texans are sending a wolful offensive
line to East Rutherford tonight. Tell me about the defensive
pressure of the front four, really the front seven. Do
you think that's a way the Jets can get to
c J stride is by maybe using one of their strengths.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, listen, you know CJ's obviously missing a
lot of his key receiving options, and I think just
watching him the last couple of weeks is he may
be holding all the ball a little bit too long,
waiting for some of those other targets to kind of
get open. I think for me it gets a little simple.
I think everything has to flow through Joe Mixon in
this game for them to have the success that they want.
You know, I think their line has been okay, but
they are struggling obviously left guard, you know, Green seems
to be just from what I'm watching, a bit of
a weak link right now.
Speaker 3: And then you know, some other injuries have caused them
maybe to have a setback at that. But I think CJ.
Strata is a knock down, do you have enough weapons
to get done?
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 18: I mean, you know, you look at a guy like
you know, Tank Dell, you know, you just don't have
a receiver, one guy you can lean on.
Speaker 3: I think Dalton Schultz, I think becomes a big priority.
Speaker 18: And if you look at the history of the Jets
defense last couple here, the tight ends been kind of
a place where they've had some issues, you know, containing
a tight end. And mean, I think he's really talented.
I was really high on him when he was a
free agent coming out of Dallas. He felt like he
could be, you know, a game changing tight end, and
that's what he was in Dallas. So I think CJ.
Shaut just got to just looking at from their perspective
is just kind of change what the priorities are. I
think he's so good and then I watch him on
and they so talented. He's just so smart with the football.
I mean, you guys are fortunate, you know, to have
a guy like that. And I mean I'm just kind
of doing like a little bit of a study because
this big talk right now is about you know, why
these quarterbacks coming out or you know, have so many struggles,
And I think it comes down a couple of things, like,
you know, how many games did they play and start
in college?
Speaker 3: You know how much experience do.
Speaker 18: They have, and they're complete And when you look at
him and just his year, I don't think anybody had
more than thirty games starting out of college.
Speaker 3: But he was kind of the enigma of that draft
class in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 18: But it was almost a seventy percent pass completion at
the quarterback position, So you know, I just think, you know,
he's another guy you can can use his legs a
little bit as well. I mean a lot of man
and man defense the Jets are going to play. I mean,
you've seen the quarterbacks a week. The week they've getting
out of their lanes. You know, maybe you take off
from run instead of holding onto that a little quicker,
so there.
Speaker 3: Will be a pass rush tonight.
Speaker 18: It is good Will McDonald is a good player and
hasan Reddick didn't show up in the staff bouts last week,
but he did open up the ability for Quinn Williams
to have a big game last week.
Speaker 3: So that that's what happens when you add the other
pass rusher.
Speaker 18: Now Quinn Williams has a little less to have occupied
to him on certain situations, and he showed up. So
when you're talking about quarterbacks and young quarterbacks, probably one
place you don't want to have your pressure.
Speaker 3: Is in your face, and you're gonna be facing one
of the better ones in the NFL. Quinn Williams. We
mentioned at the very top of you are also a
coach in the XFL. We have seen broadcasters in baseball
and basketball leave the booth to get onto the field.
Is the NFL part of your dream or are you
kind of like in having the flexibility of kind of
doing both. Yeah, I mean, right now, my priority is coaching,
you know, anytime you can.
Speaker 18: I mean, the job that I took on with the
Jets probably you know, it's been a twenty five years
since they had somebody different, so you know, at.
Speaker 3: Some point I'll probably get fired.
Speaker 18: Right now, I'll just do this for the rest of
my life, So whenever that happens, I got something to
fall back home.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, my goal is to.
Speaker 18: Continue to be a head coach in the UFL's which
was formerly the XFL. And yeah, I just keep doing that.
I mean, you know, continue to win, continue to build
my resume. I'm trying to expedite that process. I do
want to be a head coach in college football, and
of course the NFL is well. I think college is
a path for me that makes sense now where I
can get there the quickest and you know, work on
those things moving forward. I've had some opportunities to kind
of slide into the NFL at a positional standpoint, and
I just think right now, continue to be a head coach,
continue to be a leader of men. I'm a CEO guy,
a guy that oversees extremely detailed excels and messaging, knows
how to handle people very were and and tries to
really be elite in the in the situational part of
the game because I don't call the play, so I
have to be elite in that in that department. And
I learned every week from college coaches at the NFL
head coaches and what not to do.
Speaker 3: So, you know, being a former player.
Speaker 18: Being in those circumstances as a player, now as a coach,
you know, those things are a premium for me. So
just continuing to grow and be at my best and
then you know, like I said, I love to make
the transition to be a head coach in college when
that time comes, maybe when my son graduates to that
probably be better to watching him play at Iowa State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. And we saw the Cyclones there certainly
a very good team in the Big twelve. I got
thirty seconds, leven, Thank you so much for your valuable
time here. That a lot of us here in Houston
think this could be a potential trap game. Short week
long travel up to New York. Beat up offensive line,
defensive players are an issue. If the Jets win tonight,
what happens for New York for that to happen.
Speaker 18: Yeah, they have balanced offensively. I mean, yeah, I don't
think it's a trap game. The Jets are a good team.
They're just record, isn't there If when they show up
and it turns on and the leg goes, I mean,
they're gonna be a hard team to deal with. So,
you know, I don't know if that's gonna happen tonight.
It's a wait and see. But Brees all brailing out
are problems in the backfield. You know, they are offensive line,
they're you know, outside of Elijah Vera Tucker being out,
they're they're pretty good, you know physically up front. They
just haven't been able to maintain and get to the
second level. And you know their receivers are dangerous. You
know Devonte Adams does he take a big leap from
from two games that playing and and and Garrett Wilson
obviously is a guy that can you know, beat anybody
one on one.
Speaker 3: So a lot of matchups. We got to block your
edge guys.
Speaker 18: If we don't block the edge guys, then it's going
to be a problem that I for obviously, a quarterback
like Aaron Rodgers who isn't moving around as well as
he wants to, So the ball's going to come out
of his hands pretty quick if that's the case. So
if they get some time, can have some balance and
take advantage of some of those edge rushers and what
their strengths are, then this is a dangerous game for
Houston or anybody they're playing. But until they show it,
that ultimately is going to be the goal.
Speaker 3: Continued success to you and your family. Thank you, Anthony
for the time. We really really appreciate it. You got it, Matt,
thanks to having me on, but you got it. That's
Anthony Beck joining us the radio announcer part of the
broadcast team of the New York Jets. Head coach with
the BattleHawks in the UFL, and again his son is
a player for Iowa State, one of the premier teams
in the Big twelve Conference. A lot of stuff to
get to on that. If you want to recap in
that Anthony had to say about the Jets, Look, he's
it comes down to execution, just like it is every
week in the NFL. But a good perspective from New
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Talk seven to ninety. Another take Ross that you'll disagree
with you ready? No, maybe this song is better than
the movie. I liked this song better when it was
I Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis in the News.
Oh you are you going to lyrics ripoff or a
vocal melodic ripoff?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Melodic rip off? Okay, just they sued in one, right,
I believe they did.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: Ray Parker has another song called Jack and Jill, which
is outstanding, outstanding. Yes, maybe I'm selling a little bit
too much. Okay, I'll take your word for it. By
the way, There is a new documentary coming out in
late November. I believe god, somebody sent this to me.
Who's sent it to you? I think I know what
you're talking about. Go ahead. The documentary will be coming
out on November the twenty ninth. It will be called
Music Box yacht Rock. According to the network This is HBO.
The film chronicles the emergence and popularity of the West
Coast soft pop soft rock pop culture, epitomized by musical
artists such as Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Kenny log and
Steely Dan and Toto oh Man Ross. We have to
have a watch party for that, don't we I'm good,
Come on. It was retroactively dubbed yacht rock in two
thousand and five by a parody website series. So it's
a made up genre, but it's still good. It's not good.
It's excellent, all right, you'd like it, that's fine, but
it's a made up genre either way. Okay, we have
the clock starting for the five day watch for Alex
Bregman negotiating period. I am finding it, frankly amusing no
announcement yet that people are like, come on, jive Crane,
come on, Dana Brown, make this happen right now. You
gotta do it. Hey, everybody, Hello, Hello. They've had the
entire damn season to make this happen, the season before
and the season before. Yeah, I mean, bro, I mean
come on, they didn't go. Let's wait until the end
of the World Series to have a serious conversation with Bregmant.
Give me a break, y'all. Gotta realize, come on, put
two and two together here. The amount of people on
social media going, this is the time to step it up,
step it up. Jim's done a pretty good job of
steping up with a lot of stuff. But Jim holds true. Now,
whether you agree with it or not is a different issue,
but Jim Crane holds to a certain formula for financial
compensation for his players, the ones that he wants to
lock up. It's good, very very good money, but it's
no mega long deals. And sometimes the player, or in
this case, many players look for the mega deal mm hmm.
And Alex Pregnant will have this opportunity to go try
to find that mega deal. Doesn't mean he's gonna find it,
but certainly he will want to go search it out.
And if I'm Alex I would. I don't blame him
for that. Now, just because you go out there and
search doesn't mean you're gonna find something better. But as
we've talked about many times, sports arevey, it only takes
one team to go. You know what you are worth
the seventh year? You are worth the thirty one point
five million dollars per year or whatever. Yeah, well, we'll
take a hit on the back end, pay you when
we know you're not gonna be worth it when you're
thirty seven, to buy what's left of your prime. That's
what it would be doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go to before the top of the hour.
Talk to Larry and Galveston on seven ninety Highlarry, Hey, Matt,
how are you doing good?
Speaker 5: You know, I.
Speaker 19: Personally I'm with Jim Crane on forget about going on
the really long time deals. If Fregman had any sense,
he would sit down and think about where he has
been and where he is going. He is one of
the best defensive third basements in baseball without a doubt.
Has his bat tailed off some, yes it has, okay,
but who doesn't you know, and.
Speaker 3: You know jose L Tub.
Speaker 19: Wants him on the team. We have the best second
base third base combination in baseball right now with out
of doubt, and he.
Speaker 6: Just needs to.
Speaker 19: He just hates to say, Okay, Astros, what if y'all
want to give me six and or one ninety?
Speaker 14: I'm good with that.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. Thanks Larry for the phone call. Again,
nobody has ever announced from the astros what's been out there,
and we'll talk more about that to start the second
hour of The Mat Thomas Show. Plus, we've got with
Ross obviously, and we've got Doctor Rhodo one thirty. We've
got the Ross Rotten five at two thirty, and believe
it or not, today at two fifty, lots of get
two plus any Nowony as I thought of, director of
the University of Houston, joined us more on the breakman situation.
The question I want to ask Well and Ross and
I will throw this out, is is there a number?
Is there a length of term in Jim Crane's mind
right now that he says if I text him and
say I'll give you this and this, this is as
far as I go? Or is there any wiggle room?
We'll discuss more of that. Sorry. The second arrow of
The Matt Thomas Show. With Ross here from Dallas on
Sports Talk SEBNINTI.
Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 3: A lot to get to. At one o two on
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Sports Talk SEBNINTI, I'm
hearing Dallas for tonight's game between the Rockets and the
Dallas Mavericks. Ross, I wish I was your house hit.
You'd have like you have the double TV bit goings
you got, You'll have the Rockets on, You'll have the
Texans on, right, come on over. Yeah, I'll be busy. Okay.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's been life changing and I don't know how I
lived without it. Multiple TV screens in the living room.
I mean every night. For example, last night there was
a World Series and then there was there was NBA
on ESPN, YEP, watching the Celtics get blown out. It's
just just about every single night you can put on
a couple of things, especially when NBA season gets humming around.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, NBA opening night numbers television not good
for the league. Really. Yeah, they were about down fourteen
percent from a year. At fourteen percent, that's significant.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The reality is this, and it fell on deaf ears
when I asked the commissioner a couple of years ago.
I still think it's a terrible, terrible mistake to start
the season so early. I just do yeah, and they well,
the first game was a complete blowout, and I guess
people weren't tuning in to watch Lebron James m make
history with Bronni James. Yeah, it was so Wenby's first
game as a Spur was the game that led last year.
So ah, interesting, I guess that got hmm. But ratings
for the NBA, I think down as a whole. There's
a lot of people talking about the state of the league.
It's just too much. It's two three point driven. What
do you think old man Bob Ryan was like, the
three point line is the worst thing that has ever
happened in the history since I've been alive covering the NBA,
which has been forever. Because he's ancient, you know, the
reality is ross. I don't think I can answer this
because I love all parts of the league. I love
professional basketball, so maybe I'm not the person that would
answer it. I think the biggest problem the league has, frankly,
is it just gets swallowed up with everything else going on.
You have college football, pro football. You have the World Series. Now, granted,
the World Series is not gonna necessarily get you, but
if you get a big market in there, it's going
to take away some people. I still believe you should
start in mid December, but that just nobody seems to
believe me because they don't want the rating. They don't
want the ratings hit in the summertime for the NBA Finals.
I think the league, yeah, I think the league is
in a great state in terms of the talent, like
you mentioned Wimby and Jannis and jokicch and I mean
Embiid and hopefully Jalen Green or you know the like.
The individual talents I think are great, but I think
the macro the style of play where one team hits
their three pointers, the other team doesn't, and that's the
team that wins and loses. And it seems kind of
like that, how is it every night? The state of
play is not in a good place, even though the
talent I think is a in a good time. Yes,
and I do believe that guys resting and sitting out, Yes, yes,
hurt will hurt the league. Not right now because it's
early in the season, but it's going to hurt on
a you know, a regular old January night where Lebron says,
I don't want to play against the Bucks. Is I'm
not feeling good or or I'm not trying to throw Lebron,
but just any of it. I mean, Joel Embiid is
a star in this league and he's not playing because
he's taking it easy, and I, you know, I got
a problem. The playing tournament gets a little bit of
a boost this time of year, but I don't think
it's enough to justify the overall fact that you've got
a lot of people not that's playing in the in
season tournament you get you know, you you If you
don't put the stars out there on a regular basis,
you're going to be in a real tough spot. And
I think part of that is too, is what kind
of has went into a ring culture in the NBA.
So we only talk about rings and Michael Jordan's six rings,
six rings, six rings, and that's all we talk about.
And it's like, well, if we're only going to prioritize rings,
and that's all that matters at the at the bottom line,
when we talk about the NBA, rather than players being
great every day on a night in, night out basis.
You're you're gonna have the conglomeration of super teams. You're
gonna have the devaluation of the regular season where everybody's
gonna try to rest and say, yeah, Tuesday Night against
the the the Chicago Bulls doesn't matter. I'm trying to
be ready for the playoff because I want to win.
Rings rings, rings, rings, rings.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 3: And one more thing on this, you're also adding a
huge layer of uh, what is it non linear broadcasting?
Is that he would say, uh, the Amazon Prime and
the Peacock on that kind of thing. Yeah, I mean
you're gonna you're gonna take a group of people that
are gonna be like, you know what, I forgot the
games are on mm hm. So I think, yeah, the
the well, even the NFL is getting hit by that.
That ESPN plus Monday night football game. It was like
the fewest people they'd had watching a Monday night football game.
I think it was in years and years and years.
I'll go ahead and find that I can find the number.
But but I but I don't want to hear anybody
in any of these leagues complaining about it, because they're
taking the checks. Yes, they you know, when you take
a check from Amazon Prime or Netflix or who else
Hulu was to broadcast games, you're going to lose audience.
So just either just take the check and stop complaining
about it. Yeah, Chargers Cardinals lowest watch game. It was
on ESPN Plus. Right, first time an NFL game drew
fewer than two million viewers since two thousand and eight.
Mm hmmm mm hmmm, all right, seven one three two
one two five seven. And we were talking about Alex
Pregman a minute ago in your gut ROSSI Yes, if
we were to look at a notepad that Jim has
an epper right corner of his desk, or he's got
a notepad on his phone, is there a number in
a length of years that is on that phone right
now that he's like, this is whar I'm this is
as far as I'm going to go? Or is there
a huge part of me that says he's gonna let
the market dictate it, or is there a part of
me that says they've just decided that they need to
move on from Alex and try something else because maybe
the best days of Alex Bregman are behind him. I
think there is a number and I think you're gonna
think it's ridiculous. Go ahead, five one, twenty five. Now
you and I have a lunch bet or a post
show bet. This is me guessing, by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
six years deal he gets none of us wins. If
he gets seven or more, you win. If he gets
five or less, I win. Yeah, you're hoping the way
you win. I don't think he's gonna sign a five
year deal. But if he gets like one to three
year deal with opt outs, and that's how you win,
I think, yeah, yeah, I do believe there is a number.
I don't believe that the decline of Bregman, at least offensively,
is enough for them to say I just don't want
to bring him back, especially because there isn't a guy
in the wings that's ready to step right away. They
obviously ross when Carlos Korea left. They thought enough of
Jeremy Pennon to say, this is a guy we can
fill in at a much smaller value. I don't think
that guy with the astros is ready for twenty five.
It might be ready for twenty six. Do you piecemil
a twenty five and go get a fridge on a
one or two year deal. You could certainly do that
at a lesser amount. I'm just telling you, Rossie, if
they would have thought that, if in Jim's Crane's Jim
Crane's mind, I can't leave, let Alex Bergman leave, He's
gonna be an aster for life, this deal would have
been done by spring training of last year. I agree
with you, he's gonna hit the market. He loves Houston,
but you've got two World Series championships. There's no reason
to stay here, nothing to chase, nothing to I mean,
he's one of the all time great astros. If he
never plays another game, it's time to go get paid
and it's time to go get the maximum. And I'm
not faulting him at all for that. And I just
don't think if you remember when Carl's Correa what he
he he I love Carlos Korea. Remember he was said publicly,
He's like, yeah, they offered, yeah, they offered me five
one sixty and I wasn't gonna take you like he
just wasn't gonna take it. And so five one sixty
to him was a slap in the face because Jim
Crane doesn't want to go over five. So that's why
I guess. I'm guessing five one twenty five maybe maximum
five one fifty somewhere in that neighborhood, because I mean,
the economics of baseball have gone up. But I think
he's gonna stay hard line. If he did it with
Carlos Karrey, he's gonna do it with Alex Bregman, and
Alex Bregman's gonna look elsewhere for an employment. It's sweet tough.
It's gonna be a very bitter pill to swallow for
a lot of people. But I would say Ross, it
isn't a consensus, It is not a there And I
know that jose Al Twove came out right before the
end of the season. It was like he has got
to stay here. Yes, he was doing that because he
loves his teammate and they will be friends for the
rest of their life. Regardless of whether or not they
put a glove onto work. They they generally love each other.
And he doesn't want a part of the great past
to go away. But everything comes full circle and you
lose people and you you know, and people go out
their directions or try all the things. This is not
out of the ordinary with any walk of life. But
I don't. I can guarantee you that jose Al Tubay
did not say the things that he wanted to say,
not on one different occasion, but two different times. And
all of a sudden, the light bulb went off in
Jim Crane's office and said, well, jose Al Tuobay says,
I gotta do it. I gotta do it. Yeah, probably not,
and it's unfortunate. It's going to be a big loss.
It's gonna be a loss in the field and a
loss with you know what Taylor Scott and others have
talked about, the game planning, with the pictures and being
involved in mound visits and all that type of stuff.
It's absolutely there are so many intangibles that you just
don't see on paper that Alex Bregman brings to the table,
and we, unfortunately and hopefully we're wrong about this. Hopefully
we got to start preparing for the of that not
being a part of the Astros future. Seven to one
three two one two five, seven ninety. If you want
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Speaker 12: They'll be taking the field on Sunday and hoping things
go the Texans way, and when Nick falls goes with
a passing call, Number ninety nine will be batting the ball.
Speaker 7: He had It was a JJ swat from JJ on
he gets those a lot. He had It started making.
Speaker 3: Me hard from JJ.
Speaker 20: It was a JJ swat from the two minute warning
till the final gun. The Texans defense will be having
some fun with Clowney blitzing watching the Eagle fall.
Speaker 7: Nothing makes me happier than.
Speaker 3: A batted ball.
Speaker 1: He had a swat.
Speaker 7: It wasn't JJ swat from JJ what he gets those
a lot? He had a swa. It started making me
hard from JJ wa J swath.
Speaker 3: Oh I missed the Gordy parodies. I'm tearing up, Maddie
some of the good old days. I'm totally blame lockdown
Gordy for this because he would actually care about our
radio station and care about this show. Hey, he cares
about our station. He's just gotta look. You see a
deal with Stan Northfleets takes five days a week. And
see how you all know that?
Speaker 6: Come on, you know what you know?
Speaker 3: I I apologize, I retract that that bottom of the
previous statement. But man, he's doing shows in Jackson, and
he's got he's gotta be on in Lafayette and Mobile, Monroe,
He's on in Uh, He's on in uh Mobile Alabama,
Doe thing. He's hanging out and doing Pensacola Sports later.
I mean, come on, Gordy, give us a parody once
in a while. I think if they make the playoffs,
we have to hold him to it. For every play
every week there in the playoffs. We need a parody. Yeah, yeah,
parody for Yes, he doesn't know this ship, but he's
he's not required by state law to do that, all right.
It is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one
three two five seven ninety seven one three two. I
have a question on my Twitter cat Ross at sports Empty.
You need to follow it because it's great. My question
was your wife's slash girlfriend is wearing a naughty blank
costume for Halloween and I put on their wrong answers only. Okay,
here are some of the responses. Oh boy, septic tanker,
naughty septic tanker yep. Naughty plumber yeh. Naughty Yankee fan
hm hmmm. Although that that's that's got some possibilities. I'm
just saying, okay. Naughty radio traffic update reporter hmmm traffic.
Naughty Nathan's hot dog eating champion. I like that one.
Naughty Rosie O'Donnell hmmm duh. Naughty Starbucks barista huh. Naughty
wavestarter at Astros Games. That's not bad. Naughty Jack Easter
be oh, this is getting weird. Naughty network repair. I
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naughty Iris agent would be actually not bad. Naughty lunch lady, ah,
here's when it's rude. Naughty Ruth Bader Ginsburg, may she rest?
What is wrong with you? People? Who are these people
following you? This is sick. Wardles is not a Yankees fan.
I have a feeling that Naught a Yankees fan might
be Okay.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna throw that out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you have any ideas of what you
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five seven ninety, let's talk to Ken on the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross Ken. Good afternoon, Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 15: Uh I just want to make one little statement, and uh,
I just hope that the owners and the top organization
of Astros would finally come to conclusion that if they
want a consistent team year after year, you've got to
dig in your pockets. And I don't understand why they
don't do that. Did they just want a team that's
just mediocre sometimes? Or do they not just want to
pay them? You know, I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, did nothing of Astros go to seven
straight American League Championship Series until this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 15: But there's always someone that is dissatisfied and they you know,
look what happened to Nolan Ryan back way way back then.
Speaker 3: You made eighty You mean in nineteen eighty. You're you're
gonna give me a nineteen eighty reference.
Speaker 15: No, I'm just gonna say what they did. They don't
want to get in their pockets and pay the money.
Speaker 3: Well, they did pay. They have paid Alex Bregnant before.
They have paid Jose l t V multiplications, They have
paid you on On Alvarez, they have paid Justin Verlander.
Give me some more, Rossie. Who else have they paid?
Took care of? To Jose they paid I've had some
of the money spent hasn't been great, but they had
the top five payroll this year. I mean, honestly, Ken,
they're not miserly.
Speaker 15: Okay, Well, they got a lot of dissatisfied players then,
I guess because they're not getting what the other teams did.
Are consistent ones get I don't think I be wrong,
but that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: All right, Thanks for the phone call. The let's be
brutally honest on some things here. The George Springer deal
was not good for the Toronto Blue Jays he has
been a disappointment. Um, Garrett Cole to me feels like
an overpay. Now granted he has helped them go on,
but it's still felt like that was way over market
value for him. Who else has left? Charlie Morton was
a guy that well, Charlie the Morton they should have kept,
quite frank, Yeah, Charlie Morton was reasonable. That would have been.
That's actually the one I'll go to bat for. Carlo's
Correa has been okay, up and down for the for
the Twins not but I wouldn't say great value for that.
For the Twins, I would say Garrett Cole has been excellent.
I mean, he won the cy Young last year. But
maybe maybe I'm just thinking of it's just too much
to pay one picture. It's just he had thirty million
dollars for an ACE that's market value or what is
he making now? Thirty thirty six it's got to be
north of that thirty six a year. Remember he missed
some time before the start of the season. Yeah, he
likes that money, apparently when he called the show earlier, Yeah,
and he did not like the reference that he that
he and his wife were address up as current and
miss Piggy.
Speaker 14: That was.
Speaker 3: That was But I didn't bring that up. He brought
that up himself, so he was preemptive. He said, why
is his wife gonna be buzz Lightyear?
Speaker 6: Though?
Speaker 3: That's kind of weird. Yeah, that is weird.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, look, players leave all the time. It's not
it's not personal. It's it's completely financial. You know, That's
what it is. Jim Crane has a stance he does
not want to play players deep into his thirties, players
that he broke that promise for that rule for Verlander
who was terrible this year, and jose Oh braw who
you had to eat a year and a half plus
of that contract. So I mean, I think the example
is generally work in his favor. Yeah, all right, let's
get to doctor Rotal here. You got any questions about
your fantasy football team, We are going to get them
answer to the next half hour here on Sports Talk
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Speaker 13: Wide receiver I need to drive.
Speaker 3: Ooo, Doctor Roto, gimme the news. I really don't know
what I should do.
Speaker 7: My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got a bad case
of fair deceive blue.
Speaker 3: Move who it is the fastest thirty minutes of major
market radio. We say hello to the one, the only
Doctor Roto here on Sports Talk seven ninety Doc. First,
will good to hear your voice. Secondly, we've got to
figure out a serious situation with the Texans receiving corps.
This week snow Stefan Diggs, no Nico Collins until next
week against Detroit was it worthy of picking up some
people on waivers if available for the Texans tonight game
against the Jets tonight.
Speaker 14: It's gonna be an ugly game, empty it is, I
do think. Look, Joe Mixon is absolutely in play. The
Jets have not been good at stopping the run, and
you know that the Texans have been leaning on the run,
and they're gonna have to do that tonight. Luckily they're
playing the Jets, who play a lot of man coverage.
That feeds right into what Tank Dell wants to do.
You know, we still have Dalton Schultz there, who's just fine.
Now in terms of the other receivers, you're gonna see
Hutchinson play, You're gonna see Mechi play, and I think
you're really gonna see Robert Woods take a big step up.
Woods is that veteran guy who knows the routes, knows
where to go. I think he's probably the safest bet.
But I don't think I want any of those three
guys for fantasy. So give me Mixon, give me Dell,
give me Schultz and Stroud.
Speaker 6: And that's it.
Speaker 3: Anybody on the Jets side, Yeah, I want.
Speaker 14: Brice Hall for sure. Rogers the problem with Breese Hall is,
you know what Rogers likes to do. They get on
the three yard line. They're not running the ball. He's
trying to pay his stats and get some touchdowns. DeVante
Adams looks like he can't get separation. So I don't
know whether it's the life of knowing the playbook or
maybe it's that hamstring. He doesn't look great. Garrett Wilson
looks way better. Well, I start Adams probably, so I'm
gonna start Adams. I'm gonna start Wilson, and I'll start
Breese Hall. I don't feel great about Aaron Rodgers tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the games around the NFL
this week, and again, if you've got a question about
a particular player or players, you can start dialing in
right now to seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven to one three, two, one two five
seven ninety We've got a quarterback change in Indianapolis, Joe
Flacco difference maker this week, Yes or no?
Speaker 14: Yes, And here's why you can't win games When your
quarterback completes ten passes just not enough.
Speaker 5: It's not good for your receivers.
Speaker 14: Richardson is not ready and now you've got to play Minnesota,
who's gonna blitz literally.
Speaker 5: On every down.
Speaker 14: It could turn ugly, So Flacco gives them the best
chance to win it. I think it also helps their receivers.
Michael Pittman and Josh Downs is in play. On the
other side, TJ. Hockinson is back, which is great to see.
Justin Jefferson is always in play. And I got a
very good friend in Minnesota who calls this the squeaky
wheel narrative because Jordan Addison is complaining about not getting
enough targets, so they'll try to feed him as well.
Speaker 3: All right, so there's your thought about this on the
nine game, let's get to Detroit and Green Bay. I
cannot wait for this bad boy sundaing it three twenty five.
Tell me if you can go five deep on both sides? Correct?
Or are you going to hold off some people on
the Green Bay side?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, you can't.
Speaker 14: And good The good news is Jordan Love was at
practice today, so I think he's gonna give it every
chance he can to go, and if he does, it's
a game changer. So let's just talk about the receivers.
Romeo Dobbs has been sensational. He's really good against man coverage,
and Detroit rolls out a ton of man coverage, so
we're gonna want to look at Dobbs.
Speaker 5: I like Jane Reed not as much this week, but
I like him.
Speaker 14: I like Tucker Kraft for sure. And then keep your
eyes on Christian Watson. They may need him to make
a big play downfield and challenge this Lions defense. Look,
the Lions always come out tough, but what happens is
if you start beating them, they lose confidence quickly. On
the other side of the ball. Listen, we're playing David Montgomery.
You play him every time you play Gibbs, every time
you play am Rossaint Brown, every time Jamis and Williams
are still out.
Speaker 5: I don't trust Sam Laporta as much this week.
Speaker 14: I do believe GoF ends up going, but I think
that I think you're gonna They're gonna run on Green
Bay as much as they can. So Montgomery, Gibbs, and
on Ama Rossaint Brown all can score touchdowns.
Speaker 3: All right, Chargers go to Cleveland to take on the Browns.
Brown's a huge victory last week. Are you buying in
on any of the Jamis Winston one week. Amazing work
that he did last Sunday, I.
Speaker 14: Am I'm buying into it now. I think what happened
was last week. Baltimore's past defense is not very good.
The Chargers have been stingy. Jim Harba has done a
really great job with this team. So I think they're
gonna keep the ball, and they're gonna keep the defense
and make Jamis dink and dunk right. They're not gonna
let Jamis go deep, which is what Jamis wants to do.
I think that's changes the Browns offense.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 14: I think you're going to see more Nick Chubb and
take a look for David Nujoku and Elijah Moore. I
don't think they're gonna be able to go to Judy
and Tilman like they've been doing.
Speaker 5: On the other side of the ball.
Speaker 14: There's a guy, if people don't know him, Ladd mcconkee
from the University of Georgia. He's a man covered specialist
and oh what, by the way, what do the Browns
love playing man coverage. Ladd McConkie had two touchdowns last week.
I think he scores again this week.
Speaker 6: I really do.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr apparently is back for New Orleans. Do we
care when they go to Carolina?
Speaker 14: Well, look, I mean this is the whole season right
here for the Saints. If they don't win this game,
it's done. I think Derek Carr returning is a big thing,
and Chris Olave will benefit, you know, immensely. We haven't
heard the name Taysom Hill in a while. I think
you're going to see him. I don't know if he scores,
but I think he'll be involved. And of course Alvin
Kamara is not one hundred percent, but he Look, this
is a game I'm still playing him. I expect that
he'll practice in full on Friday.
Speaker 5: So you want to start Kamara, You want to.
Speaker 14: Start a Lave Hill if you're dead, and car if
you're death. But on the other side of the ball,
Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 5: Is gone, right, he's in Baltimore. I think Xavier Legette
is going to be the number one.
Speaker 14: Receiver there, and that the Saints rolled out a lot
of man coverage, which I think leget should do a
good job against.
Speaker 3: All Right, Tampa Bay and Kansas City is the Monday
night game? Does the You see the Bucks every single
week because you're down that neck of the Woods. Are
they helter skelter offensively? Are there some weeks that you
expect big things happen and nothing does, and then other
weeks where you expect them to be tame and they don't.
And I guess the question would be, are we due
for a Kansas City let down a little bit? I mean,
we just don't see very many teams this late in
the season remain undefeated.
Speaker 14: We are, but I'm not sure the Bucks are the
team that can get it done. The Bucks really, now,
here's the thing? The Bucks stop to run? So now,
could this be a Patrick Mahomes passing week?
Speaker 5: It very well could be.
Speaker 14: Could we be seeing way more Hopkins than we did
last week? Yes, And we're gonna certainly see a ton
of Kelsey in this game. Now, do I think Kareem
Hunt has a big game? Maybe as a receiver more
than a runner. On the other side of the football,
I think Baker did a very credible job last week
without Godwin, without Mike Evans, I mean.
Speaker 5: That's losing a ton of talent. Kate Otton has been.
Speaker 14: Sensational and by the way, oh, who's the worst team
in the NFL against opposing tight ends? That's right, it's
a Kansas City chief. So Auton's gonna have a good game.
And I think they're gonna have to run the football
with you know, with Rashad White and Bucky Irving and
Sean Tucker. So Baker's gonna throw to Auten and he's
gonna throw to his receivers a little bit. But I
think they're gonna have to control the time of possession
and keep Mahomes off the field. It's gonna be hard
to do. I think that, you know, look as Kansas
City gonna lose, yet they will, I just don't think
it's gonna be this week.
Speaker 3: And lastly, Miami bo, how have things changed now the
two is back for the Dolphins.
Speaker 14: Well, look, at least Miami has a semblance of an offense.
There's some rumors down here that they may want to
trade Mostart. I think that makes a little sense. A
Chan is sensational, especially with two of back. He may
be one of my plays of the week. I really
like him. Right, is a very good young running back
as well, so they may not need most as much.
Now look it, Jalen Waddle has to get involved in
this offense.
Speaker 5: They have not used to him enough.
Speaker 14: Tyreek Hill is sensational, but Buffalo doesn't like to let
you beat them deep. So I think they're gonna keep
Hill and waddle in front of them and just once
again dank and dunk down the field, which is what
two is happy to do. On the other side of
the ball, Miami, I don't think can stop Buffalo. James
Cook has been sensational, Josh Allen runs when he needs to,
adding Amari Cooper has been sensational, Khalil Shakir has been
a great number two, and by the way, Kean Coleman,
the rookie from Florida State, has really been good in
the red zone. So I just don't think Miami's defense
can stop Buffalo's offense.
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Speaker 21: Hey, how you guys doing good? Good quick question two
one two two for real quick for Rodo one Kate
Auton or Trey McBride and number two two flex positions.
Give me two out of the four Josh Downs, Keyon Coleman,
Amari Cooper or at TN.
Speaker 14: All right, so we're gonna go Auton because it's just
a better matchup. I mean, McBride's been great, but against
Kansas City's a great matchup. I think you got to
go Josh Downs against with Joe Floko is a game
changer there.
Speaker 5: Downs is a great technical.
Speaker 14: Receiver and as long as Flocko doesn't get which he
will be if he can stand in there, he'll find
he'll find Downs. In terms of Buffalo, look, I like
Kean Coleman, but Amari Cooper's no more receiver there, So
let's go with him, all right?
Speaker 3: Seven one three, two one two five seven. NINTI for
a question for Doctor Roto seven to one to three
two one two five seven Nintie Mike on The Matt
Thomas Show at Ross with Rodo.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Mike Afternoon, Quick question, Sam Donald or Kyler
Murray to start this week?
Speaker 14: Yeah, so listen, I worry about Kyler Murray. What happened
was last week he had time to throw. Miami's pass
rusher is not there. You give Kyler time, he's gonna
be He's gonna do a good job. But Chicago's got
a very swarming pass rush, and I think he's going
to suffer Donald against the zone defense, the cover three
that Gus Bradley likes to run. I think Donald's going
to be fine. Donald's biggest problem is he holds the
ball until the receiver's wide open. You can't really do
that in the NFL. But I think he should be
good for two touchdowns this week.
Speaker 3: All Right, I'm run a couple of emails and before
back the owns of these three, Doctor Rota. Who to start?
Kenneth Walker, Breist Hall or Tony Pollard Walker.
Speaker 14: I mean, that's just a really good spot against the
Rams in a game that is about a forty nine total.
Speaker 5: So Vegas likes it too.
Speaker 3: Pprley, Garrett Wilson or Michael Pittman Junior.
Speaker 5: Wow, I don't love Wilson tonight. I don't, but Pittman. Look,
Pittman's in a better spot. The question is backspasms. You
know we're worried about him.
Speaker 14: I would lead Wilson because I don't want to have
somebody wait until Monday and then you don't have the
player play.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you about Pittman. He's been a number
one disappointment for me. Not being personal on this rodo,
but he's let me down. Consider it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's Richardson.
Speaker 14: Richardson's completed the fewest number of passes in the league
this year.
Speaker 5: Is a Pittman's fault.
Speaker 3: Okay. Josh Jacobs or JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins, ooh, that's a nice one there.
Speaker 14: Look, Josh Jacobs is in a tough spot. I mean,
the Lions are really good against the run. I think
this is a game that the Packers are gonna have
to throw the football.
Speaker 5: So JK.
Speaker 14: Dobbins not a great spot either on the road, but
I'll give it. I think that I'll give him a
shot there. I'll go with Dobbins.
Speaker 3: All right, one of these three in a flex, Keon Coleman,
Travis at In or Rashaan White.
Speaker 5: All right, So let's just talk about Etn.
Speaker 14: He's expected to play, but he's gonna share opportunities with
Tank Pixby. He can't take Tank Pigsby out of the lineup.
He's look great and you're playing Philadelphia, which means you're
likely losing. So I think he got to go with
shot White. We spoke about it before. He's good for
about you know, twelve to fifteen touches a game, usually
catches three passes, and they do use him on the
goal line.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go for shot White.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Geo on seven ninety for doctor rode
O Higo.
Speaker 11: Hey, guys, so rote I think Tyrone Tracy is a
questionable So I don't know if he's gonna play or not.
If he does, that will be my flex. But in
case he does not play, Uh, should I go with
Parker Washington? Or shall I go with Ray Palmer from
the Bucks?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 14: So I don't think that Singletary is going to play. Please,
coming on a short week, and usually short week guys
with concussions don't get cleared, so I would expect that
he doesn't play. So look, you're talking about two guys
who are third receivers there, So the question is I'd
rather play the receiver who's got the worst secondary that's
going up against the Eagle secondary is bad, and that
game could be a high scoring game. So give me
Parker Washington. Palmer's okay. I just don't see the Buccaneers
putting more than twenty points on the.
Speaker 3: Chiefs, Craft or Hockinson this week.
Speaker 14: Oh, the Colts give out plenty of top touchdowns to
tight ends. I think Hockinson's not going to get a
full load of snaps, but he could get a touchdown.
Speaker 3: I like Hockinson, Mooney, Spears or Bigsby in a flex.
Speaker 14: I think it has to be Mooney. That Falcons Cowboy
game is going to be high scoring. Mooney seems to
do really well at home. Kirk Cousins likes going to him.
Trayvon Jags will probably cover London, So I think Moody's
a good a good player.
Speaker 3: This week, Alan on seven ninety for doctor rode o'hi allen.
Speaker 10: Hello, how you got Kyler Murray or Sam Donald is
MQB and in a flex position, I have Brian Robinson
Junior got a Breeth Hall.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The problem with Brian Robinson he's dealing with a knee injury.
So do I think he plays, Yes, but I think
you have to play Brice Hall. I mean, if he
catches four or five passes, he's gonna.
Speaker 5: Have more yards.
Speaker 14: We mentioned this before about Donald and Murray. I think
Murray's gonna suffer against that Chicago pass rush. I think
I'm gonna take Sam Donald in a game that should
be about fifty points.
Speaker 3: Stroud or Cousins.
Speaker 14: Oh Cousins. I mean, look, you play Stroud because you
like him and he's your guy. But Cousins in a
much better spot.
Speaker 6: This week.
Speaker 5: This said do or die for the Jets. I mean,
Houston could lose this game and still make the playoffs.
Jets lose this, it's.
Speaker 3: Over, yep. David in Houston on seven ninety for doctor
Rodal go ahead, David.
Speaker 16: Hey, thank you, uh doctor Roto. Curious where you're out
on Hopkins, you know, the best quarterback he ever played
with was Kyle Money. I mean Kyle Murray and what
your thoughts are on him moving forward? But also looking
at Cooper cup or.
Speaker 5: Harrison.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I like Cooper cupp a ton I don't love
Harrison this week. I think he's got a really tough
matchup against the Bears, and the Bears Bears are gonna
be angry right after last week.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be angry. I really like DeAndre Hopkins. I
agree with you.
Speaker 14: I mean, can you ask for a better guy to
play with than Patrick Mahomes. But even as good as
Hopkins is, it takes some time to get up to
the playbook figure it out. They only ran him in
the slot twice last week, and they went to him
both times. I think the more we see of him,
the more involved he's going to be, and the better
fantasy player he's going to be. So look, he's gonna
be sensational by week twelve or thirteen, but rolling in
week nine, so it's gonna take him a little time
to ramp up.
Speaker 3: Brian and Alvin for Doctor Roto on Sevenny Hi, Brian.
Speaker 6: Hey Man, Doctor Roto. Do I do Chubb Harbard for
Carolina or Urban for Campa Bay?
Speaker 5: I think you do Tuba Hubbard.
Speaker 14: I don't really think Carolina stands a chance to win,
but the guy gets twenty touches. Now, there's a rumor
that Jonathan Brooks is coming back this week. My insider
guy for Carolina thinks it's going to be one more week,
so this could be Tuba's last week as a starter.
Speaker 5: I think we go with him.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Christian and Cyprus on seven
Honey high Christian, Hi, thanks.
Speaker 22: For taking my call. I've got two quick ones, Chiefs
defense or Chargers defense, and then I need two receivers.
And I don't know if I should start Pittman over
Wandale Robinson and Jerry Judy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would start Pittman over Wandelle. I would.
Speaker 14: Judy's okay, but he's not great. I know Jamis likes
going to him, but I think you've got Kilman there,
You've got Elijah More there, you got Nick Chubb there.
You've got a lot of a lot of options. So
I'm not big on Judy this week. In terms of
the defense is look, Jameis Winston could throw two interceptions,
but I think this is all about Kansas City at home.
Baker forces the ball sometimes I think I'm taking Kansas
City there. And of course Mikole Hartman can return a
punt or a kickoff return for a touchdown.
Speaker 3: All right, a couple more ifore we get to your lock,
let's go to uh Believe Allan and Spring go ahead.
Speaker 5: Allen Layman ross O Connor on this one.
Speaker 3: I would go Connor on that one, easy, all right,
real quick and do nothing Aughten or Bowers in a PPR.
Speaker 5: Oh Man, that's a tough one.
Speaker 6: Those are.
Speaker 14: Look, Bowers is a number one head end in football
right now and on the top five. I think Aton
has a better matchup, so I'll go with him. But boy,
they're two great players, all right.
Speaker 3: And there was one more Kyler Murray or Caleb this
week for those quarterbacks, you know, can.
Speaker 5: I tell you something? Caleb was one end from being crowned.
Oh he was the best rookie quarterback.
Speaker 14: Terrible.
Speaker 5: Did you watch him last week? He's terrible.
Speaker 14: Jaydan Daniels a million times better. As much as I
don't like Kyler Murray this week, I hate Caleb Williams.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's a great quarterback.
Speaker 14: There I said it. I think he's more, you know,
sure he's the Yeah, I don't think he's great. Gim
me Stroud any day overtailed. Give me Jayden and Daniels
any day overtailed.
Speaker 3: All right, there we go, ladies on real quick though,
Matt hold on, no, we have no time half PPR.
Connor or James Connor Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 5: Oh, I like James Connor.
Speaker 14: I think they're going to scheme for him, and if they,
if they're gonna beat the Bears, they're gonna have to
run through him.
Speaker 5: He's gonna get twenty touches.
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the Cougars against Kansas State. We'll discuss that other things next.
Eddie Noony, has I thought a director going to join
us for a couple of minutes? Here fifty eight on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.
Speaker 3: Show two o two on Sports Talk seven Hoey, The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross comes to you today from Dallas.
I'll have the rockets of the Mavericks, beginning with the
launch padd at six thirty, network pregame at seven o'clock,
and then the call from the American Airline Center at
seven thirty. We've got Texans and the Jets also going
at the same time. They're gonna be busy listening and watching.
But you're gonna hopefully be in attendance on Saturday for
a two thirty tilt between the Houston Cougars and the
Kansas State to walkats. And joining us right now to
discuss that, among other things, is my new best friend,
Eddie Nunez, Vice president in ACLINT Athletics at the University
of Houston, Eddie Howard, Things.
Speaker 6: Going great, man? How about yourself?
Speaker 3: No, compliance is busy with this rockets, travel and watching
these Cougars. First and foremost, you've been on the job
a couple of months. You've got the office I think
set up at least the way you want to, at
least partially. Now that you've hit your feet on the
ground for a little bit, what are some early observations
of your time running our campus.
Speaker 6: It's such a vibrant campus there really is. There's a
lot more than people actually see. I've enjoyed walking around,
getting through campus, getting to know many of the faculty,
to staff, the students, uh and and then more than
anything else, getting around and watching our our student athletes
practice and compete. So it's it's been fun. We've got
a lot of things to do here, but some great,
great opportunities in front of us.
Speaker 3: There really is you're having a balance. I'm going to
assume the hey I want to meet you, Hey I
want to get to know you, then hey I know
what you want, or hey, here's what I need from you.
Are you still in that kind of phase right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's still an assessment. I'm learning as much as
I can learn. I'm trying to challenge certain certain groups
of certain people with with what I believe are are
things that we can do immediately but that will have
a long term effect for the department. I think little
things like and our fans they love through social media
to be able to give me some greaded thoughts and
advice about what we need to do for the Koogs
and things like merchandising. I think they saw it last
game we started opening up the store and providing more
access to more apparel.
Speaker 5: This week they'll see even more of that.
Speaker 6: So the more that I can hear that our opportunities
for our fans to not just help build our brand,
but help build this department the right way, and if
it also helps generate new revenue for the department. It's
it's truly a win win. So we're trying to do
a lot in a short amount of time because the
reality is I would if I was here a year ago,
I would have told you we would be in a
much better place. But for being here for two months,
we've done some great things and we still got a long,
long way ahead.
Speaker 3: And one of the things apparel wise, you guys can
take advantage of I've been telling the audience about it
this week is the thirty dollars special. You've got Cougar
black T shirt and a ticket for the University of
Houston versus Kansas State. That'll be a two thirty And
if you want to get those tickets, you can go
to uachecougars dot com slash black. That's uachecougars dot com
slash black the game day experience. Look, you were at
LSU for a long time, you were at Mexico running
your own shop there. And the thing I've noticed about
talking to a lot of athletic directors over my career
is that there is literally, Eddie, no two jobs that
are just alike. So are you having to kind of
go back in the memory banks about what works at
LSU work to do Mexico, what could work at Houston,
and how do you kind of balance all that to say, well,
it worked in Baton Rouge, it didn't work in Abuquerque,
it can work in Houston. How do you balance all that.
Speaker 6: It's taking all those experiences and try to trying them
out something as simple as we know, we're trying to
really ramp up tailgating here. The Texans do a great
job with tailgating at their football game. Of course, places
that I've been from LSU in Florida, they all do
great jobs. The SEC as a whole has been known
for that. And you know we are in Texas where tailgating,
where we're getting together with friends to do something outside,
especially at an athletic contest, is something that's been around
for a long time. We need to go back and
start finding ways to create that culture again to invite
our supporters to come out enjoy it. With traffic and
all the other nuances that at times people say Houston
makes it difficult to attend games, the reality is come early,
come enjoy yourself. There's with the new sports, the new
gift shop, and other things that we're opening up that
are going to be available early, the tailgating, the ability
to walk around see things through our marketing and our
game day experience. That's what we have to do. We
have to a better atmosphere, we have to get people
here early. We have to let them enjoy themselves, truly.
So I'm going around as much as I can listening
to our fans that are tailgatting, trying to listen and
find ways to continue to make it better. But all
those experiences that I've had at other places are are
going to help us understand what's possible, what the maybe
things that work there might not work here, and vice versa.
So we're going to continue to tweak things and try
to put the best foot forward.
Speaker 3: The football program is in transition obviously with Willie, and
I'm so impressed with what he's been able to do
just in the short time on the job. And I
thought last week's win against Utah was very gritty. This
is a team that was expected the youths were to
contend for the Big twelve, and I think their cougar's
added some misery and this week would be a real
fun op opportunity. I know you are trying to spread
the message to get as many folks in for that
Kansas State game because that Waldcat team is very, very talented.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the one thing that I hope our fans are
proud of is our guys keep competing. They they at
times maybe we don't have everything running the way perfectly
that we needed to run. And I think coach in
his first in his lessont first year. I mean it's
his first year, but of course he has only been
here for about six months or so, allowing him to
really build the culture, build the program the way that
he has done everywhere else. It's no different than what
we've seen with the basketball program and doing it the
right way. He's gonna build this. But the one thing
that's evident is the guys are gonna fight. They're gonna
keep fighting. They're going to keep fighting, and we can't
hurt ourselves out there and when we when we do.
That's what it really impressed me about last week's game.
We had some opportunities we didn't take advantage of. They
could have just forget it and just tanked it, and
they can't. They kept fighting and they found ways and
so to be able to get Kansas State here. The
blackout game, to be able to a two thirty game
on Fox. It's going to be a great opportunity to
showcase what we are while we can be and again
another chance for us to compete in this league per when.
And so I'm encouraging our fans, our students, everybody come out.
We need you now more than ever. Help us continue
to build this program the right way that they're going
to be proud of. Our kids need your support now.
And so it's gonna be a fun weekend. We got
basketball and starting back up next week women's basketball as well.
So everything is happening right now, and hopefully our fans
could come out this Saturday and start that process even further.
Speaker 3: And even before I let you run and you don't
work for forty our week. I don't think anybody's doing
that anytime soon on the campus or for that matter,
many jobs in your life, but if you were to
take a forty hour week of yours, how much are
you spending on nil? The dynamic constantly changes, the constant
need for additional funds, the legislation, the talk among the administrators,
that talk among the kids. Where does that in terms
of your daily to do list? Where is that focused
right now.
Speaker 6: It's it's in my daily to do list. Some days
it's a little higher than others. I would tell you though,
NIL is as important today as ever, you know when
you look at what's going to help us build these
these rosters, but more than anything else, retain our rosters
with the good kids, the ones I want to represent
this program. That's what's going to be most important for
NIL right now. Is part of my daily conversation, our
daily approach on how we look at things, working with
linking Koog's, working with others to help really elevate this area.
Don't get me wrong. You know you said it very
very well, and there's so many things happening, revenue sharing,
you know, understanding the culture, getting getting to know my
our department. But really on the top of this is
how do we put Houston Cougar's to be successful and
sustained success in NIL and RESSUA are going to be critical.
So our fans right now understand, I know this is different.
I know it's not what they're accustomed to. But now
that above and beyond money that they've always done for Houston,
for the for the athletics here, we need them to
continue to do what they can, because that's going to
be a big, big part of what we're trying to
do and how we try to succeed in the big
twelve last.
Speaker 3: Day, I'm gonna ask you to get your crystal ball out.
Do you think we're gonna get any sort of regulation
in the next twelve months, thirty six five years? And
who's going to be in charge of that? Do you
think ultimately? Because it sounds like to me, Eddie, the
NA wants no part of it.
Speaker 6: I don't know if anybody wants a part of it.
Everybody knows there has to be something done, and the
problem with that is it's going to have to be
done at the highest level, and that's legislature and federal
and to be able so he can have across all
the states have something that binds us or gives us
the ability to work within the rules or whatever those
rules may look like. You asked a good question there.
Who's going to manage this? I couldn't tell you because
there's so many different parts. People throw out, everything from
should football be its own standing or should college sports
are all continue as a n NT doa A. The
fact is right now, our coaches, everybody's looking for just
direction and we're working to give options. But until there's
a federal U legislators get in the room and sit
down and actually finalize this and help us get to
where and there's people that want to work on this,
we're gonna We're gonna continue to do to struggle to
get to the finish line. I really believe it.
Speaker 3: Great conversation as always, Eddie, thank you for the visit
and we'll see you on Saturday. I don't know if
the weather's like back home today, but hopefully we'll have
a bright sunstorny day for a two thirty kickoffs.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna follow your lead and
say it's gonna be. We're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 3: Very good. Thanks Tony for the time. We really appreciate that.
We'll see it. That's Eddie nouoniyas Vice president in a
college athletics athletic director at the University of Houston. Seven
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Speaker 3: POSSI I think this is a top three goat og
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I thought you've had at number one for years. I have,
but I wanted to make sure I was okay. You
soft pedaled a little, Matt, just getting with your chest baby,
the best of all time. If I want to maintain
this drip, I gotta make sure I get some flesh
or suff Is that your nasal drip? You did that yesterday.
It was a bad joke, then it was bad joke now.
But I didn't mention you just did it there. No,
this is the all time greatest song. Thriller's gotta be there,
Thriller one. I We'll go Monsmash one, Thriller two, Ghostbusters three.
That's fine. I'm sticking with Thriller, the greatest of all time,
all right? Uh Russ. There are some things that mostly
things about social media and the platform x slash Twitter
is dangerous and ridiculous, right, Uh? What's dangerous Twitter? I
mean in general yeah, yeah, but there are some interesting
websites that I found inquisitive. What do you mean inquisitive?
You found? Well, well, not about not about Taylor. We
will look get to her. Selection. We don't need to
get to her. How did she do? I think she
had Garrett cole over on out's right, he got a
bunch of them. Taylor does it? And I'm glad you asked.
Since since you asked, I know you brought it up. Yeah,
but you're asking, so, I mean the least I could
do is tell the audience here Taylor tonight has Joe
Mixon scoring a touchdown? Okay, what is that? Even? Money?
Do you gotta lay cash on that? I'm she doesn't
put the She's such a fraudster, she doesn't even put
the odds of it. Taylor cochlan over two and a
half receptions? Cool, Well, what's a reasoning on that? Matt
Let me finish Will Anderson Junior to record a sack
and on a separate tech, a separate tweet, she says,
one hundred dollars to whomever can guess my Halloween costume.
I truly don't think anyone will get it. I think
it'd be a security and Exchange Commission investigator. Yess. She
also has Dalton Schultz longest reception over his sixteen and
a half yards Dalton Schultze. Yeah, it could happen. Okay, well,
then give her the credit. Then I'm not giving her
any credit. It's minus one fifty five anytime TV. So
let me ask you, this is she gonna go as
naughty something? I don't know. I don't care, Matt. Okay, Hey,
what is your I mean, I guess I know there's
two things you're fixated on. All right, back at it,
back to what I was originally going to. There is
a website. There is a Twitter called NFL ref Stats one.
Not know if it's a legitimate. Let me send me
followers a day, NFL ref Stats one that sounds made
up nine followers. It's not great. It's verified. Yeah, anything
are verified. Sean Hockeley is the referee for tonight's game. Okay,
that of course is ed Gunn's hockey son sixteen. This
is NFL ref Stats says sixty nine percent of their
penalties are called on the offense. Okay, and of those,
fifty three percent of those penalties are called on two
different things. False starts and offensive holdings is two favorite things.
Speaker 1: We are screwed.
Speaker 3: Well, if he doesn't start falsely, they can't call it.
They are also number two in illegal formation in rough
in the passer, rough in the passer. Well, it could
be good because he because you see de Shaw could
get get hit a lot. The last Sean Hockeley game
he called for the Texans Week three, Texans at Vikings, Minnesota,
one thirty four to seven. Well, I have some great news.
If the Texans don't commit penalties, they won't be called.
There were five false starts in that Minnesota game, two
illegal formations and are rough in the passer. Well, how
dessered were they? We need to contextualize this. I'm just
press without context, are just useless.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: By the way, Texans and ed Hockey or Sean Hockeley
games are one and four.
Speaker 6: So there you have it.
Speaker 3: Whatever. I don't care about that. Mute that account, all right,
you know, I'm like any that's stuff. I didn't think
it was bad. I don't think it was. I mean,
it's fine, but like I said, it doesn't have any context.
If you show me video of all the rough and
the passers, and they were all deserved and who cares.
They can call nine in one game and one in
the next and just be it doesn't matter if they
were deserved, if they were the right calls. Maybe maybe
this NFL rep's one guy is an a as an
attorney or a doctor and he's got a full patient
list and he doesn't have time for this.
Speaker 6: Clearly he does.
Speaker 3: He just put those stats together that you mentioned, but
you need to contextualize them. Are they bad calls or
are they the right calls? Are they a team that
commits us one contextualized and see if you gets some results. Well,
I'm gonna guess that all the reffing crews that were
calling larry My Tunsil games in the first three weeks
called a lot of false starts. So it doesn't mean
they're gonna call a lot in their next game. This
just means Larry Tunseel's not there. Well, I think that
I think you're just taking it at face back. Maybe
you know what what part of information you always tell me,
what part of u uh metrics hurt you here that
was didn't hurt me. I'm just asking, Yeah, you feel
like you've been hurt. Where to touch you? Let's go
to a Dave in spring at two twenty five on
seven One High Dave.
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, I enjoyed the interview with the A D
there in Nunya. Seems like a good guy and everything.
But I gotta tell you when when you asked him
the question about, you know, how does the mess that
is college athletics, you know, with NIL and portal and
the whole wild Wild West system they have right now,
how does it get sorted out? And he says, oh,
it's going to take legislation. It's going to take federal legislation.
And I'm thinking to myself, I don't know if he's
looked up there in d C, but this is not
a group that is particularly good at coming up with
solutions to complicated problems. And I just, I mean, can't
these guys figure it out themselves, the presidents, the chancellors,
the ads get together and figure out put some rules
in place. Why would they want to hand that off
to the to federal officials. It should be something that
they do.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know why, And I'm a why, Well,
here's my here's my I think semi educated answer. Because
you have one hundred and fifty football programs in three
hundred and something schools that all have different agendas. Why
do you think the universe? Do you think Alabama has
any interest in making sure that NIL is fair and
balanced for UTEP or for Boise State or for Villanova.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: No, you have different agendas for the power conference schools
and the power programs than you would for the little's
schools that are just trying to compete. So that's the
reason why I think athletic directors and conference officials believe
that ultimately it's going to have to take some control
by the government because nobody's going to be on the
same page on this. NFL owners there are thirty two
of them, all have the same agenda generally speaking. NBA
owners baseball the same way. You've got the habs and
the have nots that are so abundant throughout college sports.
How are they all supposed to agree on this on
a central theme?
Speaker 10: Well, Matt, do you think Chuck Schumer and Ted Cruz
are going to be able to figure this out?
Speaker 3: I don't trust government, So you're asking the wrong person.
I'm just telling you that if if you're expecting that
the athletic director and the commissioner of the SEC gives
two craps about how the Big Sky Conference compensates their players.
Your nuts, because they're just they just don't well.
Speaker 10: One last comment on this. I mean, yeah, when the
MC two A hired Charlie Baker.
Speaker 6: To be the head, I think he's still in that job,
right he is.
Speaker 10: He is a former. He was a governor of Massachusetts,
and I'll tell you my mother lived up there. I
spent time up there. He was very well respected. He's
considered a smart guy. He works across the aisle.
Speaker 6: All of that.
Speaker 10: I'm disappointed that Charlie Baker has Maybe it's an indication
that nothing is ever going to be able to get
worked out, but I thought he would by now have
started to make some inroads here. Are you disappointed that
not enough is happening with the n C two A,
or is the n C two A just you know,
you know, pointless at this point.
Speaker 3: And you've brought up a good point. The nc DOULA
is completely pointless, Rossie. We've talked about this for months now.
The NCBLA has made it abundantly clear they have zero
interest in helping this situation. They want their hands free
of this completely. And why is that? Because they want
to maintain their amateur status. Correct, They want to maintain
their amateur status, which means they do not have to
pay taxes. Last year they got according to this ESPN article,
I just pulled up over a billion dollars in revenues
last year, with half of that being distributed to the schools,
and god knows what happens to the other half. I
don't even know one pot excuse me. One point three
billion dollars in revenue for twenty twenty two to twenty
twenty three season, nine hundred and forty five million of
that coming from media rights and marketing deals tied to
championship events. And remember, it's not the schools directly paying
the players. It's Eddie Nunez and other athletic directors saying,
who do we have out there that we can ship
to our collective and then the collective can deal directly
with the athletes. So that's one point three billion in
revenue tax free. Correct? Do I have that right? Yes?
They want to keep it that way, and the NBA
wants no part of it. Real quick, before we get
to the rotten five. Anthony and deer Park are two
twenty nine, Hi, Anthony.
Speaker 10: Hey guys, Hey Ross.
Speaker 9: First of all, I couldn't comment yesterday because I was
in Twitter jail, but I could not believe agree more.
The political ads are exhausting on x and I can't
wait for Tuesday.
Speaker 6: To be done.
Speaker 3: Yes, get here fast enough.
Speaker 9: So and I was I was in a ex jail
for calling a Yankee Santa bitch, So it was for
a good cause. No, But so the Texans need somebody
to step up tonight in their wide receiver room, and
I kind of got a gut feeling on that that
it's going to be Texans legend Xavier Hutchinson. I think
he's gonna go for at least eight catches for at
least one hundred yards.
Speaker 10: Oh wow, look here's my thing. Look, here's my thing.
Hear me out.
Speaker 9: Last year, CJ Shrouds showed us the ability to elevate
any group of wide receivers. And I think that if
he's got any sort of protection, he's done it all season.
He's been under pressure and he's bailed this offense out
all season long. So I think that CJ has the
ability to elevate any group of receivers that he's playing
with now. Granted, losing our big our main guys hurts.
But I do think that Xavier Hutchinson will step up
and have a big game for the Texans.
Speaker 3: All right, you have to call Anthony. You have to
call Ross tomorrow for sure on that. Oh you're out tomorrow,
I forget yes. And the reason why I'm out tomorrow
it's because my son's getting his ring dunk a ceremony
at A and M. So I can't miss that ring
dunk ceremonies not officially sanctioned. You can do that whenever
you want. When's he doing it tomorrow?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: He can't wait till Saturday. No, they he has a
specific time and day to pick it up and do
all the dunking, and he's getting pictures done a Kyle Field.
It's a week. It's a Russie. It's a big deal, sang.
Don't you cackle back there? Do anything? You cackled? They
can't zoom yet, Aggie fans call Ross tomorrow and tell
them how big of a day it is.
Speaker 1: You know what's a big deal?
Speaker 3: All right? Geez for drunken degenerates to dunk their ring
and a picture of beer. Cool. If you think I
can you think I can miss tomorrow. Then I'm gonna
be sleeping with you at your house for a long
period of task. You No, you will not. Okay, well
that's why you're gonna let me go tomorrow. No, that's
I know you can go. I'm going. I have been.
I have been summoned to college station tomorrow. This is
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Speaker 3: You know what the song needs? Ross, I know what
you're gonna say. Don't say it. Then everybody knows what
it needs. I don't know. I don't think Connor was
born when this skit aired. Connor, what does this song mean?
More of more cow bell?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 3: He's being raised right, ROSSI that's good. I think that
was around ninety eight nine. I would have to say
one of the ten funniest skits maybe of all time
in SNL. That's one of my faves. You can find
the best of Will Ferrell. I think it's on Peacock.
It's on the What Peacock. It's an app run by NBC,
who of course owns SNL. Okay, we undred thousand. Could
we have like a fantasy ten of the best skits
of all time? I thought we did that. No, we
did recurring characters SNL recurring characters. Maybe, yeah, what did
we we did something like that? All right, we haven't
done it. Have we done a Fantasy five this year?
I know it's been too long. I don't like Well,
Connor count, have you run a Fantasy five? You've been
here a year now. Yeah, you guys did walk up songs.
Oh that's right, and I lost. That's the only one
you did. Yeah, we do. Bet we can do best
Tador props Fantasy five? What best Taylor L's best Taylor
Crypto scams, ladies and gentlemen. Takes absolutely no ability whatsoever
to give you the five best teams in the NFL.
We asked somebody that's down in the dirt and then
the dirt a loser. No success. It's like, oh, I'm
just kidding. It's time for Ross's Rude.
Speaker 1: They've gone there. They draw flies Witz Ross's Rotten five.
Speaker 3: This don't smell quite right. All right, let's get to it.
On the Rotten five. There was a team that people
were clamoring for last week. They appear later on this list,
but let's start with number five. Last week they were
number one, But holy smokes, who would have thought you
get rid of one of the worst quarterbacks in the league,
although via injury the team gets better. The Cleveland Browns
going down with the sinking ship that was Deshaun Watson,
but the football gods had other plans, watson season ending injury,
opening the window for the return of the Jameis Winston experience,
and well, one weekend, the result's pretty good. The Brown's
got a clutch touchdown and a clutch stop to take
down one of the best teams in the NFL in
the Baltimore Ravens. So things trending upward for the Browns.
Congratulations to you. You climbed out of the number one spot,
but you're still bad and we're still gonna put you
at number five as the fifth worst team in the NFL.
You are a factory of sadness. Let's keep it moving
to number four. Congratulations to the New York excuse me,
New England, the Patriots. You won a game. You also
made NFL history along the way. You could say they
didn't deserve it, because in NFL history, teams were zero
and seven point fifty when allowing twenty or more points,
not forcing a turnover, and gaining under two hundred and
fifty yards. Somehow, the Patriots made that happen and got
the win. Well, that somehow is the New York Jets,
who were almost on this list. Patriots pulled off that
unprecedented miracle to win their second game of the year,
but they looked bad doing it. Maybe the future can
be bright, but they're still pretty bad as of right now.
The Patriots the fourth worst team in the NFL. I'm
the coach. I think it's best for the football team.
I don't know why we can't understand that. You know,
you're not the coach. Bill, You're out. You're not coaching
them anymore, all right. The Las Vegas Raiders, yes they're
on the list. They started out the season good enough,
splitting their first four games. That's why they haven't appeared here,
including a win over the Baltimore Ravens. Since then, things
have been horrible. They bitched Garterer Minshew, an O'Connell came in,
got hurt. They went back to Gardner minshew, all while
losing four in a row Along the way. Raiders twenty
sixth in the league in points per game, twenty seventh
in points allowed per game. Good offenses in the Bengals
and Dolphins next up in the next couple of weeks,
So I think they're gonna lose some more games. Things
getting worse before they get better. For the Raiders, the
third worst team in the NFL, all right, thanks Boom,
all right, Titans, my god, you're terrible. Setting records this
year and none of them are good. This past week,
they lost the Lions fifty two to fourteen. They became
the first team in NFL history to allow fifty points
to the other team while the other team threw for
under one hundred yards. How do you even do that? Well,
you turn the ball over and over and over and
over again in your own territory, and that's gonna happen.
They greatly outgained the Lions, but lost by almost forty points.
Mason Rudolph will Levis doesn't matter. The Titans are terrible.
They're a mess. They've lost six of their seven games
this year. Do have a winnable one coming up against
the New England Patriots that will shift the frotten five
for next week, But right now, absolute worst, A second
wor excuse me, second worst team in the NFL, the
Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 16: Guy, we got to go get Vince Young.
Speaker 3: He's retired, buddy. All right, let's welcome back to the
starting lineup, Bryce Young, and welcome back to the number
one spot the carol lineup. Panthers. Panthers making the right
move inserting their young, yes pun intended quarterback into the
starting lineup, but again, doesn't matter. They're gonna have one
of the worst defenses in the history of the league.
Speaker 1: Things are so bad.
Speaker 3: They gave up twenty eight points to the Broncos and
that's a good thing. That's a fewest they'd give it
up in five weeks. Off excuse me, offensive, well, offense
is bad. Defense is terrible. They're already waving the white flag.
They traded away Deontay Johnson, their hopeful star running back
John Unaton Brooks has been practicing this week, but Dave
Canal is the head coach, saying we might even be
playing this year. I mean, what is the point. The
season is a complete wash. The Carolina Panthers the absolute
worst team in the NFL.
Speaker 4: I've seen team suck before, but they would suck you
a bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
Speaker 3: And there's your run in five I need a ruling.
Ross You're gonna be missing on November the twenty first. Yes,
you're gonna be long from far away from us. Yes,
I'm not gonna be calling in. I might try to
call in at some point. I don't know what the
cell service is over there in Taiwan slash. I don't
want you to do that, because you're gonna want to
be in charged and you're gonna have to ask the
company for money and they're not gonna It's gonna be
a whole mess. Yeah, yeah, Okay. Then I gotta figure out.
We gotta figure out who's gonna do the Rotten five.
Is it gonna be a dan thing or what? Connor McGovern,
Adam Clinton? You got candidates, Connor, you know what? Put
it down? Connor, November twenty first, you're doing the Rotten five?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: I could do that, Okay, and also the twenty eighth.
O oh no, we're gonna be off hunh no worse Thanksgiving,
so Thankscott. I could do it one day, you got it,
It's easy. And then we'll then and then are you
still go on the following No, you're back the following. God,
look all this vacation. I'm golod for this is good.
I'm glad you get to go on like this. I
don't get to do these international trips, but this will
be good for you. Yes, thank you. Should be the
trip of a lifetime. I'm looking at you and bring
us some souvenirs back, both of us.
Speaker 10: What do you want?
Speaker 3: Where are you going again?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: I'm going to uh Soul Korea, boos On Korea and
then Taiwan. Okay, well just find me a shirt or something.
M okay, collared shirt, probably collared. I'll get your T shirt.
All right, it's fine. Let's uh what believe it or not? Today?
Go ahead and say it a lot and proud Ross
what is it? And Connor? What are we playing for?
It's a Los Angeles Dodger. I'll see it.
Speaker 23: We've got some tickets to go see the Transceptre Inn Orchestra.
And we also got a six pack of tickets to
see U of H VERSUS Kansas State.
Speaker 3: Oh baby two thirty, you got to be there. Uge
cougar dot com slash black. If you don't win the
tickets today, that's a coup your T shirt and a
tickets or a ticket for thirty dollars seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety. That's right uchcougars dot
com slash black if you want to see the Cougars
take out on the Kansas State Jayhawks. Two thirty the
start time at TDECU Stadium. There is the buttle like
tailgate area. You want to get out there. You want
to be loud, you want to tailgate, you want to
have some fun. You want to wear the black shirts
because it is a black out at the Cougars game.
The uniforms are spectacular. You will enjoy everything that is
the pomp and circumstance that is Big twelve football as
the highly ranked Kandastate Jayhawks coming to town. Remember again
for tickets, you go to uchcougars dot com slash black.
Thirty dollars get you a ticket and a t shirt
for the Big Blackout on Saturday. Uitge Kansas State TDECU Stadium,
two thirty pm Saturday.
Speaker 2: Be there, lunch timers, lunch timers, This is the Matt
Thomas Show.
Speaker 3: What Small Broadcasting Notes Sports RV Bob Costas says he
will no longer call baseball games. He's done getting dung.
The witch is dead.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Really excellent game caller seventies, eighties, nineties, two thousands he
started to slip in the last decade, and I thought
he was atrocious for the Yankees and Royal Series South
of America. He's always been a pompous asked, there's no
question about that. Doesn't mean he's talented, doesn't mean he's great,
but he's just been a truly unlikable figure. And now
he got Uh. He probably was told he's not coming back,
and they just said, hey, why don't you announce you're
retiring from game Cocot going to work for MLB network.
But he's not gonna do any playoff games. So there
you have it. Anything else you want to get off
your chest, I'm good. I'm sending questions. Oh, I was
gonna say, you got quite all of a sudden. Uh,
let's do real quick here. Final score for tonight's game
nineteen to sixteen Jets, twenty to seventeen Jets, which is
basically what you're saying, Connor, what do you got on
a final score twenty three seventeen Texans. Okay, so two
of the three of us have the Jets winning two
night's game, five minutes left to go on the show
What Should We Do?
Speaker 5: Week?
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simply call it be leave it or not. And here's
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completely utterly accurate. You'll say this, believe it. And if
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not to believe or not? In a row win your prize.
We're playing for what today? Connor again.
Speaker 23: A pair of tickets to see the Transibe youre in
Orchestra on the Lost Christmas Eve Tour December twenty sixth
at the Toyota Center. A six pack of tickets to
the U of H VERSUS Kansas State Game this Saturday,
November second at TDECU Stadium at some seven ninety t shirts.
Speaker 3: Jason on seven Ninnie Ready to play Believe it or not?
Speaker 5: Believe It?
Speaker 3: The Los Angeles Dodgers classic royal blue script uniforms were
first used in nineteen forty seven, the year Jackie Robinson
brooke the color barrier. Believe it or not.
Speaker 10: Believe it?
Speaker 3: No, They've been used since the thirties. That's how good
that logo is. Let's go to Anthony on seven ninety
Anthony ready to play. Believe it or not?
Speaker 5: Believe it.
Speaker 3: The dodgers first ballpark, Morningside Park, was burned down by
an arsonist after their first season back in eighteen eighty nine.
Believe it or not?
Speaker 10: Believe it?
Speaker 3: No Ross made. I'm sorry, neil On steven NINETI ready
to play. Believe it or not Believe it. The Los
Angeles Dodgers have gone through over ten name changes over
the years, including the Brooklyn Robbins, the Brooklyn Grays, and
the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. Believe it or not Believe it right?
Statement number two for the win. The Los Angeles Dodgers
all time leader in pitching wins is Don Drysdale. Believe
it or not.
Speaker 10: Believe it?
Speaker 3: No, it's Don Sutton Kershaw second. How about a number
of posties and wins wouldn't be Kershaw and say you hey,
Tom on seven ninety, Tom, what was your favorite part
of today's radio show?
Speaker 9: To the.
Speaker 19: We're talking about the World Series.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers all time leader in home runs is Duke
Snyder with three hundred and eighty nine. Believe it or not?
Believe it yes, statement number two for the win. Dodgers
Stadium has been home to thirteen different no hitters, one
of them combined, and eight of them by the Dodgers.
Believe it or not?
Speaker 10: Believe it yes.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, nicely done. John on seven ninety You're ready to play?
Believe it or not? The Los Angeles Dodgers have a
losing record versus only three other MLB teams. They are
all in California, the A's, the Angels, and the Giants.
Believe it or not?
Speaker 5: That is actually true.
Speaker 3: I would ever have guessed that that is crazy. Mark
on seven ninety, Mark, your favorite part of today's radio show, Alex.
According to the Sports business journals David Kaplan, the Dodgers
have turned down numerous multimillion dollar endorsements to keep the
stadium name simply Dodgers Stadium. Believe it or not, Believe
it not?
Speaker 9: They have it.
Speaker 3: I don't have an answer, so I don't know. Yeah,
I texted you. I left the answer off. I sent
her resent a second email. But it's all good. No,
so there you go. Sorry we have but I made
up that reporter. Okay, very good. It was not a
bad rule write down there. That's good, good work by you.
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a piece of cake?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 3: Three hours of Texans Jets, recap, rewind, can't wait? Maybe
a Rocket caller too, and hold your breath.
Speaker 5: If you.
Speaker 3: You know what, I could call you in with an
update and what's happening with the Ring Dunk? I do
want a Ring Dunk update with Sweet Tea?
Speaker 12: Is it?
Speaker 3: He's going Sweet Tea? That's great. Had zero problem with that.
He is the number one Aggie in my life, no
question about that. All right. Up next, it's our buddies,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wax. So they're going to entertain
the heck out of you between now and six o'clock.
I'll join you for Rockets and Mavericks at seven point thirty.
Speaker 5: Right here.
Speaker 3: The team is next on seven ninety